mhbell Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 (edited) Got a error when booting Debian 9.4 I get the "a start job is running for dev-disk-by. I have traced the problem to the swap file entry in the FSTAB for Debian 9.4 How do I create a new swap file with the correct UUID in FSTAB? I can delete the old swap file with Gparted and create a new one but how do I get it in FSTAB. I don't know what the uuid is for the new swap file. Mel Problem is solved. I use GPT partitioning so it was easy to remove (Delete the swap partition in debian and recreate a new one using Gparted. I then used the blkid command to get the uuid of the newly created swap partition and put it in the fstab file. All is OK now and working like it should. Mel Edited June 9, 2018 by mhbell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 To get the UUID, simply run bblkid as root. As seen below : comhack@Cerberus ~ % sudo blkid [sudo] password for comhack: /dev/sdb1: UUID="26a458e5-9b94-4f88-be49-c9e5e71a8b3a" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="6af44c3e-085a-48bf-8a2e-bf9c1949dcff" /dev/sdb3: UUID="GFO854-Ah8H-d0Qq-i4w9-Cz3P-6WdT-6inRDH" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="27f96b0f-2f41-4dc1-9db0-723ac51b7ccc" /dev/sda1: LABEL="MEDIA" UUID="cb0d6b0f-1c2a-46c8-99eb-bbe4e1bcb1b5" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3e12cce9-01" /dev/sdc1: UUID="3067b591-934e-4c73-a4a7-e5d9da6c267a" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0003d80e-01" /dev/sdc3: LABEL="Clone" UUID="6b1e37c8-b8d8-4e59-bce9-11b07858aae2" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0003d80e-03" /dev/sde1: UUID="748f67e8-f6b2-4957-b015-622a0d42190f" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="8f3058f5-01" /dev/sde3: LABEL="home" UUID="3fc84665-73ed-46ed-a4c6-31d4ce2bc1b7" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="8f3058f5-03" /dev/sdd1: UUID="02fcad08-2db1-4467-b2ee-f9cbbfc229d1" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="e213a741-0055-45df-8bab-559442d7c228" /dev/sdf1: UUID="f1d3022a-e554-4a23-ad7a-a224760192ca" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="83c53858-01" /dev/mapper/lvm-lvroot: UUID="dcf10cb6-4569-4e96-afec-9c62c218bf92" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" /dev/sdg1: LABEL="Expansion" UUID="392461ea-ed96-42a1-b398-9ca1ce5044c1" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="61098fd4-3c33-4206-acb7-da8ecd37e117" /dev/sdg2: LABEL="CLONE" UUID="da37fc00-0bbd-43e9-9d0a-3bbf4dc74b70" TYPE="ext3" PARTUUID="a422b8ef-5e40-4787-ae86-2bddbae4bc6d" /dev/mapper/root: UUID="5d25ff64-4cfb-453e-bc96-2070a546939d" TYPE="ext4" /dev/mapper/tmp: UUID="64f6516b-bd2e-4e56-9c74-854e61754993" TYPE="ext2" /dev/mapper/swap: UUID="5d538335-f189-431a-960d-ca56781f1ddf" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb2: PARTLABEL="BIOS boot partition" PARTUUID="d8ad926c-3fde-42b1-8223-cd8c0ed5e40d" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Nevermind, I missed the part where you found blkid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Let me guess - you just installed another OS and it formatted the swap? I just installed Debian Stretch from a netinstall recently and found there is no option to not format the swap. A workaround is to not use a swap partition on installation and add a current one to fstab afterward. Also if you had a current swap partition there is no need to delete and recreate it. Just get its UUID with blkid and add that to fstab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Let me guess - you just installed another OS and it formatted the swap? I just installed Debian Stretch from a netinstall recently and found there is no option to not format the swap. A workaround is to not use a swap partition on installation and add a current one to fstab afterward. Also if you had a current swap partition there is no need to delete and recreate it. Just get its UUID with blkid and add that to fstab. Yup, you can simply run swapon /dev/sd(partition number) like sudo swapon /dev/sda4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Yup, you can simply run swapon /dev/sd(partition number) like sudo swapon /dev/sda4 I don't think that persists after reboot. You still need an fstab entry for that. You can alternatively use LABEL or UUID for swapon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Yup, you can simply run swapon /dev/sd(partition number) like sudo swapon /dev/sda4 I don't think that persists after reboot. You still need an fstab entry for that. You can alternatively use LABEL or UUID for swapon. It does not persist but I was just pointing out how to turn it on immediately without rebooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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